Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure

Author: Joan L. Bybee

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9789027229489

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A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major principles. First, the content of people s interactions consists of a preponderance of subjective, evaluative statements, dominated by the use of pronouns, copulas and intransitive clauses. Second, the frequency with which certain items and strings of items are used has a profound influence on the way language is broken up into chunks in memory storage, the way such chunks are related to other stored material and the ease with which they are accessed to produce new utterances.

Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition
Frequency Effects in Language Acquisition

Author: Insa Gülzow

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3110977907

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The book addresses a controversial current topic in language acquisition studies: the impact of frequency on linguistic structure in child language. A major strength of the book is that the role of input frequency in the acquisition process is evaluated in a large variety of languages, topics and the two major theoretical frameworks: UG-based and usage-based accounts. While most papers report a clear frequency effect, different factors that may be interacting with pure statistical effects are critically assessed. An introductory statement is made by Thomas Roeper who calls for caution as he identifies frequency as a non-coherent concept and argues for a precise definition of what can and cannot be explained by statistical effects.

Frequency in Language
Frequency in Language

Author: Dagmar Divjak

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107085756

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Re-examines frequency, entrenchment and salience, three foundational concepts in usage-based linguistics, through the prism of learning, memory, and attention.

Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language
Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

Author: Joan Bybee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0195301560

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This is a collection of three decades of articles by the linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure.

Point of View and Grammar
Point of View and Grammar

Author: Joanne Scheibman

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9789027226211

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This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in discourse.

The Grammar Network
The Grammar Network

Author: Holger Diessel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1108498817

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Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

The Handbook of Language Emergence
The Handbook of Language Emergence

Author: Brian MacWhinney

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 1119075386

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This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever

Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language
Experience Counts: Frequency Effects in Language

Author: Heike Behrens

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-02-22

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 3110346915

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Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning and language change. The research presented in this volume challenges established models of linguistic representation. Instead of learning and processing language compositionally, larger units and co-occurence relations are at work. The main point taken by the authors is that by studying the effect of distributional patterns and changes in such patterns we can establish a unified framework that explains the dynamics of language systems with a limited set of processing factors.

Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing
Frequency Effects in Language Learning and Processing

Author: Stefan Th. Gries

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 3110274051

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The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency of linguistic elements/stimuli. The studies explore a wide range of phenomena , from phonological reduction processes and palatalization to morphological productivity, diachronic change, adjective preposition constructions, auxiliary omission, and multi-word units. The languages studied are Spanish and artificial languages, Russian, Dutch, and English. The sister volume focuses on language representation.

Simulating the Evolution of Language
Simulating the Evolution of Language

Author: Angelo Cangelosi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1447106636

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This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of the computational models and methodologies used for studying the evolution and origin of language and communication. Comprising contributions from the most influential figures in the field, it presents and summarises the state-of-the-art in computational approaches to language evolution, and highlights new lines of development. Essential reading for researchers and students in the fields of evolutionary and adaptive systems, language evolution modelling and linguistics, it will also be of interest to researchers working on applications of neural networks to language problems. Furthermore, due to the fact that language evolution models use multi-agent methodologies, it will also be of great interest to computer scientists working on multi-agent systems, robotics and internet agents.